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Inflation worries arise because state subsidies in the G.D.R. kept many prices artificially low. Rent and the costs of basic foods and public transport typically were a fraction of those in West Germany -- less than one- fifteenth in the case of rent. On the other hand, consumer durables were outrageously overpriced -- and an open market will bring them down...
...TIMUR AND THE PRINCELY VISION: PERSIAN ART AND CULTURE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington. The reigns of the legendary warlord Timur (known as Tamerlane in the West) and his successors produced some of Islam's finest paintings, ceramics, carvings and other works, all richly sampled here. Through July...
...edition in my house, however, only went up to the year 1965. So, upon going to Harvard, where I figured it would be even more useful to have a superficial knowledge of cultural history, I decided to get a new, updated Bartlett's: the "Fifteenth and 125th Anniversary Edition...
...phantasmagorical; near the end, the ghost of * Stalin appears to the dying composer and tells him, "I am the enemy you loved." For all Shostakovich's hatred of the dictator, Palmer seems to be saying, without Stalin there would have been no intimate, brooding string quartets, no enigmatic, valedictory Fifteenth Symphony. By giving Shostakovich something to hate and fear, Stalin turned him into a great composer. The symphonies dedicated to the state and the choral potboilers like The Vow of the People's Commissar were a small price...
Tenth-ranked and first-time opponent ArizonaState handed the netwomen a 6-3 defeat before theCrimson finished up its West Coast swing with aloss to fifteenth-ranked University of Arizona...